Contesting democracy : political ideas in twentieth-century Europe /
This book is the first major account of political thought in twentieth-century Europe, both West and East, to appear since the end of the Cold War. Skillfully blending intellectual, political, and cultural history, Jan-Werner Muller elucidates the ideas that shaped the period of ideological extremes...
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
c2011
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Table of Contents:
- The molten mass
- Interwar experiments : making peoples, remaking souls
- Fascist subjects : the total state and Volksgemeinschaft
- Reconstruction thought : self-disciplined democracies, 'people's democracies'
- The new time of contestation : towards a fatherless society
- Antipolitics, and the sense of an ending